RE: [TSVN] Re: TortoiseMerge: Editing conflicts

Nick_Gianakas@sybari.com wrote:
> I've mentioned this before, but I'll mention it again since
> I'm not the
> only one who is dissapointed w/ TMerge.
> Look at meld (http://meld.sourceforge.net/)
>
> I feel like my hands are tied when using TMerge. And although it
displays
> 3 panes--it's not a 3-way merge. The panes are: Theirs, Yours. That's a
> 2-way diff. The 3rd pane in TMerge is a conglomeration--the merged output
> It's not part of the "diff". To make an effective merge, you need 3
> distinct views: Base, Theirs, Yours. The actual merged result can be
> done in a 4th pane, but it's more intuitive to do it over Yours since
> that's the copy to be committed.
> Lurking on the list for a while, I get the impression that some people
> think TMerge's 3 panes are innovative. Perhaps that's the case on
> Windows, but GNU has had it for a long time. 3-way diff isn't new folks.
>
> Please don't take offense. I think the TSVN group (especially Stefan) has
> done a spectacular job w/ TSVN; it's a superb tool--and I don't even use
> Windoze often.
>
> Unfortunately, Meld is built w/ GTK. Even worse, it has become part of
> the GNOME project recently, so it hooks into GNOME specific libs. That's
> fine for me since I use Linux most of the time. But most of my co-workers
> use Windows and continuously moan about TMerge. It's at the point where
> TSVN's rep is getting hurt.
>
> One promising facet of Meld is that it's built w/ Python. So it shouldn't
> be too difficult to port it to Win32 (strip out the GNOME specifics), or
> at least leverage its ideas.

Have you tried kdiff3?
I switch mostly between kdiff3 and winmerge - kdiff3 does a three-way merge
- you get to pick which of the three files you want the results in, and
winmerge lets you edit the file (a bit) while merging two files. I seem to
remember that winmerge is going to go three way, if it hasn't already.
I downloaded the source code to these with an eye to sticking my favourite
bits together but it's in my pending tray with hundreds of other useful bits
I don't have time for.
Bill

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